Hello, welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Evan Brand. Thanks for joining me. I'm board certified in holistic nutrition. I'm a functional nutritional therapy practitioner. I help people around the world resolve their health issues by using at home functional medicine lab test. We look at organic acids test, stool test, chemical profiles, mycotoxins. We can measure pesticides, heavy metals, measure

hormones. We can look at blood. A lot of times blood isn't super helpful compared to the functional

labs unless there's something really wrong with you. But I have a whole toolbox and I apply that

toolbox as needed where it's needed. Anywhere from women that wish to get

pregnant to one year old babies to 85 year old clients, I see them all and it's a true blessing

to help so many people. I've helped over 3,000 cases in the last decade. Over 26 million of you

guys have downloaded this podcast in the last 11 or 12 years,

so thank you for that support. And I love doing what I do here. And I hope that out of this episode

today, you'll have a greater understanding of the potential autoimmune risk associated with

having gut imbalances. So your gut microbiome can literally be the trigger for you to have

not only Hashimoto's, but many other autoimmune diseases. And this is a huge problem. And unfortunately,

if you go to the conventional doctor, they're very behind when it comes to this connection

between certain bacterial infections and autoimmune diseases. I hope within the

next five to 10 years, it's totally different. But if you or your loved one, if you have

autoimmune symptoms, you have weird gut symptoms, weird mood symptoms, weird thyroid issues,

temperature regulation problems, sleep issues, you name it, all that could be stemming

from your guts. That's what we're going to dive into today with my buddy, Dr. Jay, him and I've done hundreds of episodes together, so we have a good rapport with each other. Just a couple of things before we get into the show. I announced on my Instagram page, a video there, and tons of you loved it, and we sold out of the electrolytes almost instantly we just got a new batch

of those so that is my hydration essentials so if you want to you can access those by using the link

in your show notes or if you just go to the site aura roots a u ruts r oots dot com that's my

professional supplement company.

What does professional supplement mean?

Well, that means that I'm only allowed to access these manufacturers because of my

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